Hey, look! It’s the weekly open-comment entry on TechBlog! You know, the one where you get to say whatever you like about personal technology.

For you n00bs, it works like this: Leave a comment about something related to personal tech, and I’ll approve it.

Other folks will read what you said, and they’ll respond. Come back later, see what they had to say, then say some more.

This is called a “conversation”.

And you’ll be able to have plenty of great conversations tonight if you head out to the Geek Gathering. That’s right, it’s the first Friday of the month, which means the crew of the radio show I co-host on Wednesday nights on KPFT-FM – Technology Bytes, y’all – is hosting the monthly meetup for listeners.

And this is a particularly special one, as we’re celebrating 10 years of Geek Gatherings tonight.

We started this tradition in early 2002 – Tech Bytes itself has been on the air for 17 years – sotonight’s event should be one to remember.

We usually encourage folks to bring any new gear they’ve acquired, but given that the event is a decade old, we’re asking attendees to bring really old tech they may have that’s still working. So haul out that aging Compaq laptop running Windows 2000 and we’ll see if you can still dial in to your NeoSoft account.

Oh, and the guy in the picture above? That’s a young Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress. He wrote the first version of the now-dominant blogging platform here in Houston, and he was an attendee at our earliest gatherings. Matt probably won’t be there tonight, but hopefully you will be! See you there.